Jared (biblical figure)

Jared
Spouse(s) Baraka
Children Enoch
and others
Parent(s) Mahalalel

Jared or Jered (Hebrew: ירד‎‎ Yāreḏ, Yereḏ "to descend"),[1] in the Book of Genesis, was a sixth-generation descendant of Adam and Eve. His primary history is recounted in Genesis 5:18–20.

Modern scholarship

The biblical details about Jared, like the other long-lived patriarchs in Genesis, are regarded as mythological by modern critical scholarship.[2] In terms of the Documentary hypothesis, the passage about the descendants of Seth (Genesis 5:1-32) is attributed to the Priestly source.[2] A parallel passage (Genesis 4:17-22) which contains a genealogy of the descendants of Seth, is attributed to the Jahwist, another ancient version of the same original genealogy.[2] The two genealogies contain seven similar names, and the Jahwist's version of the genealogy has Irad in the place of Jared.[2]

Tradition

His father Mahalalel, great-grandson of Seth, son of Adam, was 65 years old when Jared was born.[3] In the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, his mother's name is Dinah.

Jubilees states that Jared married a woman whose name is variously spelled as Bereka, Baraka, and Barakah, and the Bible speaks of Jared having become father to other sons and daughters (Genesis 5:13). Of those children, only Enoch is named specifically, born when Jared was 162 years old (Genesis 5:18, 5:22a, 5:24, Hebrews 11:5b, Jude 14–15). Enoch went on to marry Edna, according to Jubilees, and the sole named grandchild of Jared is Enoch's son Methuselah, the longest-living human mentioned in the Bible (Genesis 5:18, 5:21, 5:27).

Additionally, Jared was a forefather of Noah and his three sons. Jared's age was given as 962 years old when he died, making him the second-oldest person mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, his age was 62 at fatherhood and only 847 at death, making Noah the oldest and Jared the seventh-oldest.

Islam

Jared is also mentioned in Islam in the Qisas Al-Anbiya, which mentions him in an identical manner. Furthermore, early Islamic historians like ibn Ishaq and Ibn Hisham always included his name in the genealogy of the Muhammad, (Arabic: أَليَارَد‎‎ al-Yārad).[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The etymology "to descend" is according to Richard S. Hess (15 October 2007). Israelite Religions: An Archaeological and Biblical Survey. Baker Academic. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-8010-2717-8.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lawrence Boadt; Richard J. Clifford; Daniel J. Harrington (2012). Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction. Paulist Press. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-61643-670-4.
  3. ↑ 65 according to the Masoretic Text, but 165 according to the Septuagint. Larsson, Gerhard. “The Chronology of the Pentateuch: A Comparison of the MT and LXX.” Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 102, no. 3, 1983, p. 402. www.jstor.org/stable/3261014.
  4. ↑ Ibn Ishāq, Sīrat Rasūl Allāh, tr. A. Guillaume (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 3
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